You’re a sparky, a plumber or a chippy and you want one number: what should a website cost me? So we went and read the price lists. On 9 October 2026 we opened the pricing pages of 12 businesses that sell websites to Australian tradies and wrote down what each one charges, in its own words. We haven’t named them, because prices change. Every figure below was on the provider’s own page that day.

The short version: A one-off tradie website cost between $990 and about $4,000 plus GST on the pages we read, and seven of the nine one-off prices started between about $1,200 and $2,200. Pay-monthly plans ran from $250 to $397 a month, which comes to between $4,188 and more than $9,500 over two years. CatalystHub builds a five-page tradie website for a flat $500 including GST, live in seven business days. You own it, and hosting is free on your own account. Need more pages? There are bigger packages, and custom quotes for anything else.

Outside Perth? Same price, no site visit. We’re a Perth studio and we build remotely, so there’s no site visit and no meeting in person. The Standard build is $500 flat including GST wherever you are in Australia. You fill in a short brief, then we have one 30-minute call to lock the scope, price and timeline. When you book it, you choose a Google Meet video call or a phone call. You see the working site on a staging link (a preview address) by day four, send your feedback in one email or call, and it goes live within seven business days of the kickoff call, with a recorded video walkthrough. More on web design anywhere in Australia.

What to do next: Our price and what’s in it are on tradie web design in Perth. To get going, start your project and we’ll reply the same day. Comparing quotes first? Keep reading and use the two-year table.

What a one-off tradie website costs

Nine of the 12 publish a one-off build price. Here they are, cheapest first.

What the package is	Published price	GST
1 to 4 pages, first year of hosting included	$990	Included
A simple 5-page site	From $1,199	Not stated
A single page	$1,490	Added on top
Core pages plus a page for each service, copywriting included	$1,750	Added on top
Home, services, about, contact form and gallery	$1,895	Added on top
3 pages, plus $299 a quarter	$1,900	Added on top
Core pages plus a page for each service (add $500 if you have no website yet)	$1,999	Included
A Perth tradie package	$2,200	Not stated
A standalone build	From $3,997	Added on top

One of those providers also lists a full multi-page site at $2,990.

For comparison, this is what CatalystHub builds for tradies:

CatalystHub build	Price
5-page website (Standard build)	$500 flat, including GST
About 9 pages	Around $900, as a custom quote
Up to 15 pages (Specialist build)	From $1,500, including GST

The Standard and Specialist builds are live in seven business days. With all three, you own the code, domain and hosting. The full list of what’s included is on our pricing page.

Three things to notice.

GST is shown three different ways. Some prices include it, some add it on top, and some don’t say. A $1,750 price with GST added is $1,925. Ask before you compare.

The page count swings a lot. The $990 package is one to four pages. Two of the packages between $1,750 and $2,000 include a page for every service you offer, and the $1,750 one includes the writing.

The build price is often not the whole bill. Four of the nine also publish a hosting, maintenance or quarterly fee that starts after launch. That’s where the two-year maths comes in.

Pay-monthly plans, and what they add up to

Three of the 12 sell the website as a monthly plan. One of them also sells the standalone build from $3,997 in the table above.

$250 a month including GST for the first 12 months, with a 12-month minimum term, then $99 a month. Over two years: $4,188.
“$300+ per month” with a 12-month minimum and no setup fee. Over two years: at least $7,200.
$397 a month plus GST, cancel with 30 days’ notice. Over two years: $9,528 plus GST.

The twelfth is a job-management software company that sells a template website as a $19 a month add-on. You need its software plan as well, which starts at $48 a user a month, both before GST.

Monthly plans aren’t a con. The first two include ongoing updates and support in the fee, and a monthly plan can suit a tradie who has no cash to spare this month. Worth knowing, though: two months on the cheapest one is $500, the price of our whole five-page build. But the fair way to compare one with a one-off build is over two years, not on day one.

The two-year table

This is the same sum for every route, using the prices and fees on each provider’s page.

Route	Upfront	After launch	Two-year total
Cheapest one-off we found	$990	$360 a year for hosting from year two	$1,350 inc. GST
One-off with an entry hosting plan	$1,895	$29 a month, first 3 months free	$2,504 plus GST
One-off with a maintenance plan (you already have a website)	$1,999	$50 a month, first month free	$3,149 inc. GST
Pay-monthly, 12-month minimum	Build included in the monthly fee	$250 a month, then $99	$4,188 inc. GST
Pay-monthly, 12-month minimum	No setup fee	”$300+” a month	$7,200 or more
Pay-monthly, 30 days’ notice	None listed	$397 a month	$9,528 plus GST
CatalystHub Standard build, no care plan	$500	Nothing to us. Hosting is free on your own account	$500 inc. GST
CatalystHub Standard build with optional Basic care	$500	$49 a month, first month free	$1,627 inc. GST

Our rows leave out your domain, about $23 a year.

Before you sign anything monthly, ask one question: if I stop paying, do I keep the website? Two of the one-off providers we read say plainly that you own the site outright once it’s paid for. Get the same answer in writing from whoever you choose.

What the website has to do for that money

A tradie website has one job. Someone has a burst pipe or a dead switchboard, they’re on their phone comparing three tradies, and they call the one who looks legit and easy to reach.

That’s why every tradie site we build is made around five things:

Tap-to-call on every screen. Your number is always one tap away.
A short quote form for the jobs that aren’t urgent, so enquiries still come in after hours.
A gallery of your real jobs. Photos of your own work, not stock.
The suburbs you cover, so people can see you work in their area.
Your licence number, insurance, years on the tools and Google reviews, up front.

Is a website worth it when most of your work is word of mouth? In a 2025 ServiceTitan survey of 1,025 Australian tradies and trade executives, 70% said they market by word of mouth and 76% said they market through their website. Fewer than three in ten used Google Ads. Many do both. A referral can still look you up before they call, and your website is what they find.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 462,939 construction businesses in Australia at 30 June 2025, more than any other industry. That’s a lot of other tradies for a customer to choose from.

What your website has to show by law in WA

In Western Australia, three laws say a licence or registration number has to appear in advertising. The official guides for electrical contractors and for builders name websites, and the plumbing rule covers any advertisement for the business.

Electrical contractors. Regulation 45(1) of the Electricity (Licensing) Regulations 1991 says your licence number must be “conspicuously displayed” in any advertisement for your electrical contracting business. Building and Energy’s guidelines list web pages, business cards and vehicle signage as advertisements. The number carries the prefix EC, for example EC 4700. As a guide, it should be no smaller than half the size of the largest lettering, and it has to sit with the main part of the ad, not be hidden away.

Plumbers. Regulation 25 of the Plumbers Licensing and Plumbing Standards Regulations 2000 says a licensed plumbing contractor must make sure the licence number appears in any advertisement for the business. The regulation lists a penalty of a $2,000 fine. The regulator’s obligations sheet says to include it in all advertising and business documents.

Builders and painters. Section 8 of the Building Services (Registration) Act 2011 says a registered building service contractor must show the registration number in any advertisement offering their services. The WA Government’s guide for registered builders says this covers builders, painters and building surveyors, and it names website advertisements.

That’s a plain-English summary for WA, not legal advice. Other states have their own rules, so check with your own regulator. On our builds your licence number goes up front with your insurance and reviews, where a customer can see it.

A website, or a lead site?

Plenty of tradies weigh a website against paying a lead site. They do different jobs, and the prices are public.

hipages lists four plans for tradies: $139, $249, $449 and $649 a month, each plus GST, with a set number of lead credits a month. You join on a six-month introductory term. Its trade terms, dated 1 December 2023, say the agreement then renews for a further 12 months unless you cancel before the term ends, and that leaving early can mean an early termination fee equal to the fees for the rest of the term. ServiceSeeking says memberships start from $129 a month, with no commission.

Twelve months on the cheapest hipages plan is $1,668 plus GST. That buys a year of lead credits. Three of the nine one-off prices above are lower than that, and so is our $500 build. If you own the site, it’s still yours in year two.

The running costs every tradie site has

Whoever builds it, budget for these:

Your domain. A .com.au is $22.95 a year at VentraIP’s regular price (it was $9.95 for the first year when we looked on 9 October 2026). Keep it in your own account.
Business email. Google Workspace Business Starter is A$9.90 a user a month before tax.
Hosting and upkeep. From nothing to the monthly fees in the table above. Our guide to what website maintenance costs has the published prices.

Building it yourself is the other option. Wix lists its Australian plans at A$21, A$42 and A$55 a month on yearly billing, GST included. The price is low, but you build it yourself.

What CatalystHub charges tradies

Standard build: $500 flat, including GST. Five pages with click-to-call, a quote form and a job gallery. Live in seven business days. You own the code and the domain, and you get every login on day seven. You don’t pay for hosting either: it’s free on your own account.
Specialist build: from $1,500. Up to 15 pages, with extra service-area pages and integrations, for operators covering a big patch.
Something bigger or different? We quote it up front.

It takes about an hour of your time: a short brief and one 30-minute call. On that call we lock the scope and the price, and you get them in writing before you pay a cent. We write the words and you approve them. A care plan is optional, from $49 a month, and the first month is free.

One Joondalup electrical contractor says a local agency quoted him $2,200 for what we delivered in seven days for $500. His words are on our Joondalup page.

See the full tradie website page, check the line-by-line pricing, start your project, or call (08) 6288 0080. For the wider picture across all small businesses, read how much a small business website costs in Australia.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a tradie website cost per month to run? On the pages we read, published hosting and maintenance plans beside a one-off build started at $29 and $50 a month and went up to $250 a month for the top plan. One provider charges $360 a year for hosting after the first year. On top of that you pay for your domain, about $23 a year for a .com.au. Our own care plans are optional and start at $49 a month, first month free. Our Standard and Specialist builds are hosted free on your own account, so you don’t need a plan to stay online.

Should I pay once or pay monthly? Work out the two-year total for both. The three pay-monthly plans we read came to $4,188, at least $7,200 and $9,528 plus GST over two years. The three one-off builds we worked through, each with its cheapest published ongoing fee, came to $1,350, $2,504 plus GST and $3,149. Then ask what happens to the site if you stop paying.

What’s the difference between a $990 site and a $2,200 one? Mostly pages and writing. The $990 package we read is one to four pages. Two packages between $1,750 and $2,000 include a page for every service, and the $1,750 one includes the copywriting. Check GST too, because it was included on some prices and added on others.

What if I need a page for every service or suburb? That’s a bigger build, and we build those too. About nine pages is around $900 as a custom quote, the Specialist build covers up to 15 pages from $1,500, and extra pages after launch are $100 each.

Do I need my licence number on my website? In WA the number has to appear in your advertising if you’re an electrical contractor, a licensed plumbing contractor, or a registered builder or painter. The official guides for electrical contractors and builders name websites, and the plumbing rule covers any advertisement. See the section above for the regulation that applies to your trade, and check your own state’s rules if you work elsewhere.

Will I get a fixed price before any work starts? With us, yes. After a 30-minute call you get a one-page summary of the scope, price and timeline in writing, before you pay anything. If you want more later, like extra pages, we quote it up front. Revisions are unlimited, and nothing goes live until you’re 100% happy with it. Whoever you pick, ask for the full price in writing before work starts.

I’m a handyman on a small budget. What does a basic site cost? $500 flat, including GST, for our Standard build. That’s five pages with click-to-call, a quote form and a gallery of your jobs. Hosting is free on your own account, so there’s no monthly bill unless you choose a care plan. You can pay by card or bank transfer, or split the cost with Klarna.

I’m a tradie outside Perth. Does it cost more if you never visit? No. The Standard build is $500 flat including GST wherever you are in Australia. We build remotely from Perth, so there’s no meeting to travel to. It runs on a short brief, one 30-minute call (Google Meet or phone, your choice) and your feedback by email or call. The site goes live within seven business days, and you get every login at launch.

How long does a tradie website take? Ours is live within seven business days of the kickoff call. The clock pauses while we’re waiting on you for content, approvals or feedback. It takes about an hour of your time.

Who owns the website when it’s done? Ask before you pay. With us you own the code, the domain and the hosting, and you get every login at handover.